Sharing a Catalog's History between volume Folders?

Setup: I have been working on my images 'Volume A' in the past.
I have just mounted a pair of 1.5Tb drives inside my (MacPro) workstation and now have the same series of images, from 'Volume A', on one of the new internal drives. One of the new drives, 'Volume B' will now be my 'work' drive to continue my editing on.
Question: I want the History states AND my Snapshots from the images I had edited while using 'Volume A' as my work drive to be visible in the ('Volume B') new drive's History and Snapshots windows' – details precisely as they exist when I look back at Volume A's History and Snapshots records! Is there a way for me to do this w/Lightroom 2?
As things stand now:
1) In 'Volume A' (original) drive's History and Snapshots windows I see all my editing details...
2) While in the new ('Volume B') drive's History and Snapshots windows I only see today's import (in the History panel) and 'Import', along with 'Import 2' in the Snapshots panel. This is NOT what I want to see. I want to see precisely what I have, had done in the original work-volume's History and Snapshots windows! (I often go back-and-forth between past History states weeks or months later, to experiment more and then save new Snapshots as I revisit work.)
Any easy (or convoluted) fix to this?
Thanks in advance, mm

Let me try this again:
- I used to use 'Drive A' as my work drive. It is an external drive. The image files in my LR catalog are all on this external drive.
- The MacPro I work on had a massive failure a while back. When I got a replacement MP I added 2 additional drives to the workstation. I have chosen one of those new drives as my Startup drive, my boot drive – my work drive. Let's call it 'Drive B'.
- I DO NOT intend to go back and forth between drives to do my work; however I do plan to backup work I do on 'Drive B' to 'Drive A'. (Remember, 'Drive A' is the external drive! It is now my archive drive.)
Here's the deal, DJ:
- When I open Lightroom, the application sees both volumes and both sets of pictures. (Perfect.)
- Both series are exactly the same as I cloned the master archive folder holding all my images over to the new drive ('Drive B') when I set up the new machine!
- However, when I open the exact same file in 'Drive B' (that was originally edited on 'Drive A') I do not see the ANY of the original History! It makes sense, does it not, that if Drive B is my work drive now I should have information that is helpful to me for future edit variations at my fingertips on that drive, rather than to write new instructions by way of editing on the external drive instead?
* I just want the original History states transferred-over in tact from the old external drive to my new internal drive! That shouldn't be so difficult, should it?
SEE screen capture included: View of Left panel, Snapshots and History windows open – OLD drive ('Drive A') and NEW drive ('Drive B').

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I have a couple computers that I would like to have share (URL browsing) history, but would like to do it manually rather than via Synch. I have been copying places.sqlite and sessionstore.js between the machines, and this does work most of the time, though occasionally the history gets entirely cleared (perhaps when I add or modify bookmarks on one of the machines? I haven't determined the exact circumstances yet). Is there another file or files I could copy to make this history sharing more reliable (hopefully much less than the entire profile subdirectory)? Thank you in advance for any assistance!
--John

Hello John,
Please go through [[Export Firefox bookmarks to an HTML file to back up or transfer bookmarks]] article. It will help you to solve your problem.
Thank you

Shared Lightroom catalog with Mac OS X Lion

I keep my Lightroom catalog on my Macbook Pro so I have access to my pictures while travelling. But for editing, I use a desktop PC running Lightroom on Windows 7 on the same catalog. My process for doing this is:
On the Mac, enable SMB sharing.
On Windows, mount the SMB share.
On Windows, use "subst" to map the SMB share to a new drive root.
(This avoids Lightroom's spurious error about not supporting network volumes.)
On Windows, launch Lightroom and open the catalog on the mapped drive.
This worked in Snow Leopard. But after upgrading to Lion, Step 4 gives me an error:
Lightroom cannot use the catalog named "Lightroom 3 catalog" because it is not writable and cannot be opened.
This could be caused by incorrect permissions or because another Lightroom application is using the catalog. You may try to correct the problem or you may select a different catalog.
Permissions seem OK: I can edit the catalog and the Previews.lrdata folder in Windows Explorer. And I see no stray .lrcat.lock file that might prevent it from opening the catalog.
The Mac version of Lightroom can open the catalog just fine, so I suspect Lion's new SMB implementation broke this somehow.
Has anyone got a shared Lion -> Windows catalog to work?

OK, I found a solution. The following page describes how to manually install an SMB implementation (Samba) that actually works. It requires installing Xcode from the App Store, installing MacPorts, and some command-line tinkering to configure Samba:
http://forums.sonos.com/showthread.php?t=24022
Once you've done that , follow the instructions in this post to create launchd entries that will start Samba at boot time:
http://forums.boxee.tv/showpost.php?p=205428&postcount=48
More details are here if you run into trouble:
http://forums.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=38629
While I can now access my LR library again from Windows, this is just the latest in a series of annoying bugs with OS X Lion. I am not a happy camper— but I'll save that for the Apple forums.

Finder bug in distinguishing between volumes

i have been experiencing what seems like a very bad bug and i am wondering if there is something particular to my setup. now that i have two HD's running Mac OS's on my mac pro i can see it clearer but it also manifests itself when i am using my SL OS on the laptop to access the SL OS on my mac pro. in the scenario below however i am describing accessing the SL OS on one hard drive in my mac pro from the Lion OS on another hard drive in my mac pro.
the problem is that if I SELECT the Snow Leopard volume I see - for instance - "DESKTOP" listed, however if i OPEN A NEW FINDER WINDOW by doubleclicking on this Desktop icon (again shown with the Snow Leopard HD highlighted under DEVICES) Finder will bring up a window with the LION Desktop. This means that Finder is getting confused between the Desktop folder icon when i am in one volume with the Desktop folder icon on the volume that i am ACCESSING IT FROM. this is very dangerous and i am realizing that i have been experiencing this while accessing the Lion OS on my mac pro from my MacBook Pro on a regular basis.
this issue is even manifested when i am attempting to DELETE DATA from the Snow Leopard OS. when i am in the SNOW LEOPARD volume (and attempting to delete files and folders from Snow Leopard desktop that have now been migrated to the Lion OS - and are now on my Lion Desktop) finder gets confused about the fact that i am telling it to delete the items that are in the SL Desktop and it is instead DELETING items from my LION DESKTOP.
this seems extremely buggy to me (again it is happening when i access my mac pro from my macbook pro) and i am wondering if there is a good reason for this or if i have not set a switch somewhere that will allow it to work more intelligently than this.
seems extremely dangerous to me...and booting into the Snow Leopard drive /every/ time i want to do something in there seems extremely impractical...
thanks.

OK. this had to do with creating an extra User Account (with the same name) and then not being logged into the correct correct OS i think.
that said, if anyone catches this i am pretty sure i get this sort of behavior when accessing my laptop from my desktop or vice versa.

Workgroup Manager won't show available volumes/folders to setup share point

Server 10.4.11: open Workgroup Manager and select the Sharing panel.
Clicking the "Share Points" tab displays my current share points as expected.
But clicking the "All" tab shows a +completely blank window+: no volumes or folders at all!
(The button at the bottom to mount or unmount a remote NFS volume appears, but I've never used it and I don't know what good it might be.)
Accessing the server with the 10.5 version of Workgroup Manger from a Leopard client gives the same behavior.

Never mind. Rebooted the machine and it's back to normal. Go figure.

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